CANDIDA: We are not asking you nor your husband nor Manolo to support us any longer!
PAULA: We will take care of ourselves!
PEPANG: And what will you do? Take in boarders? Give “expert lessons” in Spanish? Give “expert lessons” on the piano? How very, very funny! Just look at yourselves! Are you the kind of women who “can take care of themselves”? You are both completely useless!
MANOLO: Pepang, I think we can discuss this without losing our tempers.
CANDIDA: There is no need to discuss it at all!
PAULA: We will never change our minds!
PEPANG: We have pampered the two of you long enough!
MANOLO: Pepang, will you let me do the talking!
PAULA: Oh, you can both go on talking forver—it will make no difference!
PEPANG: The most stubborn and stupid pair of old women!
CANDIDA: Paula, we
